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Silicone chip recreates cancer's microenvironment
Chemical & Engineering News
Killing cancer cells growing on a petri dish is an entirely different beast than fighting cancer cells in the human body. To provide a more realistic platform for screening anticancer drugs, bioengineers have created a device that better replicates the environment around human tumors than conventional cell culture does.
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CLMA's KnowledgeLab 2014: Connect. Grow. Lead.
CLMA
The Clinical Laboratory Management Association's premier educational event, KnowledgeLab 2014, May 4-7 in Las Vegas, provides a forum for laboratory leaders from all over the world to connect with their peers, grow their knowledge and lead the charge to address key challenges in the laboratory.
Register on or before March 28 to save up to $150!
Access the best in laboratory management training and information.
Daily general sessions featuring Michael Astion, M.D., Ph.D., Seattle Children's Hospital and Robert Michel, The Dark Report
Education covering essential topics
Pre-conference workshop presented by the Joint Commission on Tracer Methodology
The CLMA Leadership Curriculum — a deep dive into leadership skill development for those who are new to the management role and for current leaders who wish to enhance their proficiency
Register for KnowledgeLab 2014 today and find new ideas and new approaches to implement in your own laboratory.
Hear why you should attend KnowledgeLab 2014. Hear why Ellen Dijkman Dulkes, KnowledgeLab 2014 Program Committee Chair, thinks you should attend KnowledgeLab this May!
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week — April 20-26
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
It is time to celebrate and educate others about what YOU do! Start planning your celebration now. Purchase official logo items and more. For more information go to www.ascls.org/MLPW.
CDC: Tuberculosis in US hits record low
HealthDay News
Rates of tuberculosis in the United States are falling, with cases at a historic low, health officials reported. Improved screening of immigrants has helped reduce incidence of the highly contagious lung disease, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
MIT researchers develop living material using E. coli
Nature World News
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a material with the properties of both living and non living things using E. coli bacteria. Their study paves the way for futuristic self-assembling materials that could be used in solar cells and biosensors.
Industry emerging to bolsters genomic analyses of healthcare, laboratory data
Dark Daily
A new industry is emerging dedicated to accepting, storing and analyzing vast quantities of data generated by next-generation gene sequencing and whole human-genome sequencing. There are already examples of academic departments of pathology and laboratory medicine that have outsourced the storage and annotation of whole human genomes sequenced from tissue specimens collected from cancer patients. The annotated genomes are returned to the referring pathologists for analysis.
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For women's cancers, where you're treated matters
HealthDay News
Where you're treated for ovarian or other gynecologic cancers makes a difference. Women with these conditions live more than a year longer on average if they're treated at hospitals that deal with a large number of these cancers, according to a new study.
Confidentiality essential for genetic testing in hepatitis C
Medscape Medical News
Urban drug users have a general sense of the importance of genetic testing as part of hepatitis C care, but have concerns about confidentiality and possible discrimination as a result of such testing, a new study has shown. Genetic testing is important because it identifies people who will respond to treatment with interleukin. However, it is not clear how best to integrate genetic testing into the care of marginalized populations, such as drug users.
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Novel HF therapy by micro-RNA blockade: Proof of concept
Heartwire via Medscape Medical News
A future generation of therapies for heart failure could depend on disruption of micro-RNA–mediated genetic machinery that affects cardiac myocyte structure and contractility. In a study primarily in mice but also in tissue from human failing hearts, injection of a tiny nucleotide that blocks a micro-RNA regulator of cellular calcium transport appeared to stem the progression of induced heart failure in the animal model.
Exercise cuts breast cancer risk for all women everywhere
NPR
Exercise reduces women's risk of breast cancer, no matter what kind of exercise they do, how old they are, how much they weigh, or when they get started. Researchers in France found that the more active a woman is, the better her odds of avoiding breast cancer. Women who were most active, with more than an hour a day of vigorous activity, got the most benefits, lowering their cancer risk by 12 percent.
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Silicone chip recreates cancer's microenvironment
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Killing cancer cells growing on a petri dish is an entirely different beast than fighting cancer cells in the human body. To provide a more realistic platform for screening anticancer drugs, bioengineers have created a device that better replicates the environment around human tumors than conventional cell culture does.
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5-second rule on dropped food may bear some truth
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A team of biology students conducted experiments on common foods dropped on common floor surfaces coated with Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Researchers monitored how much of the bacteria were transferred from the floors to the food items in periods ranging from three to 30 seconds.
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Starving melanoma cells may slow tumor growth
Medical News Today
New research suggests melanoma skin cancer may be controllable by starving its cells. Building on previous success with prostate cancer cells, scientists in Australia showed they could stop cell growth by blocking the pumps that melanoma cells use to acquire an essential cell nutrient.
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Failure of clinics to offer HPV vaccine leaves high-risk groups vulnerable
Fierce Vaccines
Concerns about cost and promiscuity have led to many countries struggling to increase uptake of GlaxoSmithKline's and Merck's human papillomavirus vaccines. England fits into this category, but survey data suggests it has a more fundamental problem: High-risk groups are less likely to be offered the vaccine.
Research consortium focuses on better drug therapies for viral infections
University of Alabama at Birmingham via The Medical News
Viral infections with limited or no treatment options can pose a major global health threat, but a new national research consortium centered at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is focused on the discovery of new and better drug therapies as these viruses emerge. The center will focus on developing drugs against four RNA virus families: influenza, flaviviruses, coronaviruses and alphaviruses — infections causing diseases including West Nile, SARS, MERS, chikungunya and dengue.
Fat mass in cells expands with disuse
Laboratory Equipment
To understand how obesity develops, researchers in Tel Aviv University's Department of Biomedical Engineering used state-of-the-art technology to analyze the accumulation of fat in the body at the cellular level. According to their findings, nutrition is not the only factor driving obesity. The mechanics of "cellular expansion" plays a primary role in fat production, they discovered.
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